"But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance. If you do, the rest falls into place. You have to have good assistants, and a lot of things, but first you have to have the chairman of the board." -- Paul "Bear" Bryant
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Should we assume that Carl was doing "his thing" when he was in Lincoln?
I am guessing so...how nice to have a DC sniffing during time outs!
I attended the game, in fact had a sideline pass. I made it a point to get near the defensive coaches during goal line stands. They seemed disorganized and not on the same page. The players were focused but a little over confident to start. And Bo was just not as engaged as I expected. His post game news conference was disappointing, blaming the players and not really taking any of the blame himself or for his coaches. Reminded me of a book I read many years ago about the 64 New York Mets by Casey Stengel called, "I Managed Good but Boy Did They Play Bad".
He has simply been getting out coached. Certainly against the Gophers but also by Mora and even nearly so by the SDSU coach. Even Gopher fans were telling me he should be fired after losing this game. I just don't want to go through another three years of rebuilding.
Interesting take. Thanks for sharing. It always appears that our coaches are dazed and confused on the sidelines to me when things are going bad on defense. I reckon after this first hand account, they are. How I wish we had a Charlie McBride or Monte Kiffin as a d-coordinator. Experience and maturity might just rub off on some players, eh? Along with some confident leadership.
Neither do I, but I think the wheels are spinning in mud right now. The one thing Pelini had going for him was stability. Lose to the teams you're supposed to lose to, so long as you beat the teams you're supposed to beat (I would think that would include Minnesota). I'm hoping this turns out to be like the Iowa State loss a few years back. Just when the team hit it's low point, they beat Oklahoma and it turned out to be Pelini's best team (with Callahan's players).
But I have a bad feeling this will be a November to remember and not in a good way. Have you seen Wyoming's last two losses? All of a sudden that game looks about as bad as it should have looked.....
The Huskers got beat up by Minnesota? OMG.
I missed the "good part" of the game. When I tuned in UNL was up 10-7 but looking like they were going to get beaten as Abdullah went out with what seemed like a bad injury. Nice to get him back but we had no answers for #99.
MSU is going to come to Lincoln with a chip on their shoulder and a very physical OL and DL. We shocked and stuffed them in Lincoln in 2011 (their only conference loss) and the zebras handed us one in EL in 2012.
Paybacks are a bitch.
Credit to the Gophers. They're really not a very good team but they took a few pages from the BADger's 2012 Big 10 Championship game playbook and ran it at us and around us without fear.
This is a very bad loss.
bad loss yesterday lets put it behind us and see what happens next week
still 5 games left and Ive seen Bo pull rabbits outta the hat before
Yes, that is a good paraphrase of what Bear said....or at least a good interpretation.